Congratulations to Nicole Baumann and Ahuti Das (both co-supervised by Professor Dieter Wolke) on winning the 2020 University of Warwick Psychology Department PhD Student Publication Awards at a recent PGR Research Day.
Read their articles and what the judges said.
Baumann, N., Tresilian, J., & Wolke, D. (2020). Effects of infant motor problems and treatment with physiotherapy on child outcomes at school-age. Early Hum Dev, Vol 149, 105140. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105140
The judges said: “This highly impressive piece, published in Early Human Development, made an important contribution through looking at the impact of physiotherapy via a large prospective study and sophisticated analyses. Although physiotherapy did not have the expected impact this in itself was an important finding with considerable real-world practice implications.”
Das-Friebel, A., Gkiouleka, A., Grob, A., & Lemola, S. (2020). Effects of a 20 minutes delay in school start time on bed and wake up times, daytime tiredness, behavioral persistence, and positive attitude towards life in adolescents. Sleep Medicine, Vol 66 p103-109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2019.07.025
The judges said: “This longitudinal study using real school data tested the impact of just that little bit extra sleep (20 minutes) on daytime tiredness and attitude towards life amongst adolescents. Although the extra sleep did not quite give the advantage expected this null result was in itself an important finding in a very significant area for our everyday lives.”